| The dynamics and uncertainties of the external environment faced by modern construction companies have increased the technical difficulty and complexity of the engineering projects,blurred the initial scope of project,and increased instability factors during the implementation of their engineering projects.Construction project team members often encounter new engineering problems,which increases the difficulty and challenges of project implementation.This requires the construction project team to get the ability to quickly respond to unpredictable events during the construction period,in order to improve work efficiency,while the traditional behavioral incentives or reward and punishment systems or other material incentives often lead to high agency costs and reduce initiative and creativity.The "flexible management" as a decisive factor for engineering team members to obtain dynamic adaptability and rapid response ability,team psychological empowerment can better meet the requirements of the information age development,and effectively drive the creativity and satisfy engineering team members’ individual development needs to further improve project performance.As a project team’ manager and leader,an engineering project manager adopt a suitable leadership style,that can significantly affect the behavior of team members and improve their performance.Taking into account the particularity of project implementation,the transformational leadership can enhance team psychological empowerment to the project manager,and the formation of a team voice climate is conducive to enhance the team members’ shared psychological perception to the effectiveness of the project manager’s leadership,thus they can better improve team work performance.Based on a configuration perspective,this study builds a theoretical model of the relationship among the transformational leadership of engineering project managers,team voice climate and team psychological empowerment.Based on the analysis of the literature,this study combines expert interviews and theoretical deductions and other methods,the existing maturity scale was revised to be contextualized.The QCA is used for empirical research to get different factors combinations,in order to improve the team psychological empowerment level,they are:(1)High leadership charisma * Low personalized care * High team voice effectiveness * High team voice safety beliefs;(2)High morality * Low vision incentive * High leadership charm * High team voice effectiveness;(3)High vision incentive * Highly personalized care * High team voice effectiveness;(4)High morality;High vision incentive * High leadership charm * High personalized care * Low team voice effectiveness.Through empirical research,it is confirmed that combinations consisting of engineering project manager’s transformational leadership and team voice climate to effectively enhance the team psychological empowerment from the perspective of configuration,this paper broke the "net effect" of the antecedent variable and the result variable in the existing literature.Research provides a new perspective on the research of team psychological empowerment of engineering project teams and expands the application of QCA method in the field of engineering project practice. |
